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By Jay M. Smith

In 1764 a peasant woman was once killed and in part eaten whereas tending sheep. finally, over 100 sufferers fell prey to a mysterious creature whose lethal potency mesmerized Europe. Monsters of the Gévaudan revisits this spellbinding story and provides the definitive cause of its mythic prestige in French folklore.

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